Recommendations
9 The Cabinet Office identifies three key risks in the Plan. These are: the supplier market adapts slowly; unidentified dependencies between the 19 delivery areas slow down progress; and existing contracts prevent or delay implementing parts of the Strategy. Although these are important risks that need to be managed, they have been identified 'bottom-up' by senior responsible owners' risk assessments of their individual delivery areas. These risks do not fully reflect the scale of business change across government and so far, the Cabinet Office has paid less attention to how it drives a major cross-government behavioural change programme that affects all of the civil service.
10 We have identified two additional high-level risks (Figure 1). These are: the Strategy does not deliver a lasting legacy for the public and business, and government cannot measure progress or demonstrate value for money as the change programme proceeds.
Figure 1 Risks to the Cabinet Office in delivering the Strategy
Source: National Audit Office |
11 To help government mitigate these two additional risks and broaden the focus to driving business change, we make the following recommendations: